If you would like to get a list of categories used on our platform for organizing the advertisers you can use the following to search or browse through all available categories in our catalog. Using this search from our API you will get the ID of the category, its name and also the parent ID if a specific category is included under a bigger category. You can choose to work only with merchants from a certain category or exclude categories that are not of interest for your business.
API Function: get_categories
| Name | Type | Description |
| username | string | Your API username. You should have received this with your account |
| subscription_id | string | Your Subscription ID. You can copy or regenerate it from your API management interface. |
Response fields:
| Name | Type | Description |
| category_id | numeric | The unique ID associated with the category |
| parent_id | numeric | The ID of the parent category (if exists) |
| category_name | string | The name of the category |
<?php
$api_username = '*******';
$api_subscription = '*******';
try
{
$client = new SoapClient('https://synced.io/api/v2?wsdl');
$categories = $client->get_categories($api_username, $api_subscription);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
if(!empty($categories))
{
print_r($categories);
}
?>